ARMONK, N.Y., July 18, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- IBM (NYSE: IBM)
today announced that Digital Realty (NYSE: DLR) is using the IBM
Envizi ESG Suite to collect, analyze and report on its
environmental, social and governance (ESG) performance across its
portfolio of 300+ data centers across 50+ metros across 27
countries on six continents.
According to an IBM Institute for Business Value report ("The
ESG data conundrum"), while 95% of organizations surveyed have
developed ESG propositions, only 10% say they have made significant
progress toward their goals, and 73% cited a struggle to manage an
overload of manual data.
Digital Realty is one of the largest global providers of cloud
and carrier-neutral data center, colocation, and interconnection
solutions for major metros globally including Chicago, Frankfurt, Johannesburg, London, New
York, Northern Virginia,
Sao Paulo, Singapore, Sydney and Tokyo. With a commitment to sustainability and
environmental stewardship, the company will use IBM Envizi as a
centralized hub for collecting, managing, and deriving insights
from its ESG data, to track progress, identify areas for
improvement, report performance to stakeholders, and accommodate
disclosure requirements. The software provides a comprehensive and
integrated solution for managing ESG performance, environmental
impact, and sustainability goals.
"By leveraging the capabilities of IBM Envizi, we will transform
our ability to collect, analyze and report on our ESG performance
across our global data center portfolio. It will help track and
manage our environmental performance, while enabling us to better
meet the sustainability needs of our customers and other
stakeholders," says Aaron Binkley,
VP Sustainability, Digital Realty.
"Organizations globally are simply buried in a massive
amount of ESG-related data—from operations, sensors on factory
floors, and more. But it is often siloed across databases,
spreadsheets, and business units," says Christina Shim, Vice President, Global Head of
Product Management and Strategy, IBM Sustainability Software. "The
IBM Envizi ESG Suite helps our clients, like Digital Realty, gain
insights from data to fuel smarter, more sustainable decisions
every day."
Working with IBM, Digital Realty uses Envizi to help manage and
accelerate sustainability initiatives across its portfolio. For
example:
- Create a single system of record for ESG data: Envizi enables
Digital Realty to streamline the collection of data from a wide
range of sources such as utility data, power usage efficiency
(PUE), renewable energy certificates, waste data, business travel,
purchased goods and services. This makes it easier for Digital
Realty to provide consistent data for reporting, analysis and
decision making – for example, to support Scope 1, 2 and 3 GHG
emission calculations and to create its annual ESG report.
- Analyze data to inform sustainability decision-making: Digital
Realty can apply Envizi's advanced analytics to transform this data
into insights on the performance of its portfolio, which helps
drive better decisions and address sustainability goals. For
example, Envizi could help Digital Realty assess its current
portfolio and drive change in its three focus areas: designing and
building more sustainable data centers, finding new ways to power
them, and driving improvements in how it operates them.
- Streamline ESG and sustainability reporting: Digital Realty is
committed to transparent ESG disclosures and reports its
performance annually, including progress against its SBTi target to
reduce its Scope 1 and 2 emissions by 68% and Scope 3 emissions by
24% by 2030. Envizi's ESG reporting capabilities is designed to
make it easier to streamline these reporting processes, with
reporting questions and responses managed within a single software
interface.
IBM itself is a user of Envizi for inputting, storing, and
managing operational data such as energy and water consumption;
planning and tracking energy and water conservation projects; and
supporting external reporting and disclosures. IBM is also an
important client of Digital Realty, hosting part of its portfolio
of global data centers with them. The IBM Global Real
Estate team is sharing insights and experience on Envizi with
Digital Realty as they advance towards more sustainable
operations.
The IBM Envizi ESG Suite is part of IBM's portfolio of
sustainability solutions and consulting expertise, including the
IBM Environmental Intelligence Suite, IBM Turbonomic, IBM Planning
Analytics, IBM Cloud Carbon Calculator and IBM LinuxONE, that
help organizations set, operationalize, and achieve their ESG
goals.
About IBM
For more information about IBM
Sustainability solutions, please visit
www.ibm.com/sustainability.
About Digital Realty
Digital Realty brings companies
and data together by delivering the full spectrum of data center,
colocation and interconnection solutions. PlatformDIGITAL®, the
company's global data center platform, provides customers with a
secure data meeting place and a proven Pervasive Datacenter
Architecture (PDx®) solution methodology for powering innovation
and efficiently managing Data Gravity challenges. Digital Realty
gives its customers access to the connected data communities that
matter to them with a global data center footprint of 300+
facilities in 50+ metros across 27 countries on six continents. To
learn more about Digital Realty, please visit
digitalrealty.com or follow us on LinkedIn and
Twitter.
Media Contacts:
Hanna
Smigala
IBM Media Relations
Smigala@us.ibm.com
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